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The EBU Access Cast

In 2018 EBU decided to create a regular monthly podcast on technological accessibility innovations and products. Stay tuned to this page for future episodes of the EBU Access Cast, your thoughts and ideas for contributions can be sent to ebuaccesscast@euroblind.org. Happy listening!

Episode 8
Welcome to the 8th episode of the EBU Access Cast. This time Mario, Jakob, Bart and Tanja prepared lots of goodies for you from the news section, and we achieved our own personal record in amount of demos prepared for our podcast. We would like to say a huge thank you to Mr. Daniel Montalvo who sent to us 2 demos about amazon Echo which we are publishing in this episode, and you can hear also the demo about Google Interpreter at the end of this podcast.

Episode 7
Welcome to the 7th EBU Access Cast, the first episode for 2019. We decided to make some changes and refresh our team with new people. Therefore from now on we have a new person who will bring girl power into our team. We wish a warm welcome to Tanja Kleut who is an accessibility specialist at the European parliament, and who joined Mario and Jakob in this episode.

Episode 6
Welcome to the 6th episode of the Ebu Access Cast. As this is our last episode before we go on the short vacation, we would like to wish you all the best for the upcoming holidays, and that Mr Santa brings to you a bunch of the assistive tech devices and gadgets under the Christmas tree. Jakob and Mario are recommending a few gadgets to purchase for the Christmas, and for the end of the podcast Mario shared the audio tip for Android users how to turn off Picture in picture mode which can be a litle frustrating when Android is being used from the blindness prospective.

Episode 5
Welcome to the fifth episode of the EBU Access Cast, released on 20th November 2018. Welcome to the newest and fifth episode of the Ebu Access Cast. After one month period of silence during October due to a few technical problems and Jakobs trip to the Amazonian forests, we are back to bring you the newest content from around the globe from the assistive industry, and boy boy, we have a lot of interesting things to say this time. If you stay with us until the end of the news announcements, you will be able to hear our surprise demonstration about the new product, which is hitting our blindness, and sight impaired community like a storm these days. We received our first contribution from one of our listeners from Denmark which means that our podcast is being listened and followed, so we'd like to say once more thank you, Keep sending us your feedback, we are looking to expand our podcast even more in the future.

Episode 4.
Welcome to the fourth episode of the EBU Access Cast, released on 20th September 2018. After a very hot summer, our team is back with the newest news reports from the assistive tech industry. However before we get into the newest updates we would like to notify our listeners that from now on our podcast is available on the iTunes as well, so anyone who is using their favourite Apple gadget or smart speaker such as Google Home is finally able to hear us and listen to our show when and where ever you want. To find us on the iTunes you can visit the following link:

Episode 3.
Welcome to the third episode of the EBU Access Cast released on 23 July 2018. In our final episode before the summer break Jakob Rosin and Mario Percinic are joined by Bart Simons from Belgium as our third member of the team who gave us one more opinion about the upcoming stories which we prepared for you this time.

Episode 2.
Welcome to the second episode of the EBU Access Cast released on 20 June 2018. Hosts Mario Percinic and Jakob Rosin prepared a bunch of news from the assistive tech industry, and at the end of the Podcast, you will be able to hear a short demonstration about Google Home.

Episode 1.
The first episode of the EBU Access Cast, was produced in May 2018. Our hosts today in the first episode, Mario Percinic and Jakob Rosin, introduce themselves and then later talk about a few things which occurred during last week in the mainstream tech portals as well as a few others which happened in the assistive tech industry.

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